gibson wrote:The one thing I kinda wanted to mentioned was this though - the thing I adore about TR is the news summaries. I go to http://www.techreport.com and I have a clean list of the news titles and a paragraph blurb about it. This new one just makes news a list of titles, and that's lame. For example, 'Tuesday Shortbread' with a number next to it is not at all interesting (especially to a new reader). But put 'Tuesday Shortbread' with a list and descriptions like there is now, and I'm hooked. There is a world of difference. But I digress. I dislike it, but it's ya'lls website and I like the content, so I'll keep reading.

I couldn't put it better...
Maybe a solution would be dedicated news page, which would be more similiar to current home, for us old schoolers?

Just a quick question: I know it's irrelevant, but will there be a change to the forums when it's eventually migrated from phpbb2 to phpbb3? New sections to look forward to, changes to existing, or are things going to remain the same?

Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work, you can always hit them with it.

Dizik wrote:Just a quick question: I know it's irrelevant, but will there be a change to the forums when it's eventually migrated from phpbb2 to phpbb3? New sections to look forward to, changes to existing, or are things going to remain the same?

See here. These will likely happen before the move to the new site and definitely before the move to phpBB3. I'd like to have it done before September.

Dizik wrote:Just a quick question: I know it's irrelevant, but will there be a change to the forums when it's eventually migrated from phpbb2 to phpbb3? New sections to look forward to, changes to existing, or are things going to remain the same?

See here. These will likely happen before the move to the new site and definitely before the move to phpBB3. I'd like to have it done before September.

Wow....I have no idea on how I missed that. Thanks.

Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work, you can always hit them with it.

Dizik wrote:Just a quick question: I know it's irrelevant, but will there be a change to the forums when it's eventually migrated from phpbb2 to phpbb3? New sections to look forward to, changes to existing, or are things going to remain the same?

See here. These will likely happen before the move to the new site and definitely before the move to phpBB3. I'd like to have it done before September.

Dizik wrote:Just a quick question: I know it's irrelevant, but will there be a change to the forums when it's eventually migrated from phpbb2 to phpbb3? New sections to look forward to, changes to existing, or are things going to remain the same?

See here. These will likely happen before the move to the new site and definitely before the move to phpBB3. I'd like to have it done before September.

The two graphs near the bottom of the page are borked, both in the discussion page, and the the summary page (http://trweb2.techreport.com/blogs.x/swasson?page=1)
I'm not sure if that is an actualy page flaw, or if the new site broke it, as I can't seem to find that blog on the main server.

The 'Notes from ATI's Stream computing event' blog appears on page 1 as well as page 2 (pages 2, and 3 in human-speak).

I checked some more, and this happens on page 0 and 1, as well, with the 'Vista testing begins... cautiously' blog. The rest of the blog pages (by different authors) seem to share this bug.

EDIT3: I noticed Inkling's posts, both on the the test and the production server, don't have his email attached, rather the posted by line just points to "mailto:". I have seen this in the past when news people don't want their mail shared, but as Adam is the biz guy, I thought I would mention it in case it was simply overlooked.

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Efforts to lend a helping hand: I think the border is intentional on the graphs and the smiley was an unintentional consequence, on images you don't want it just put it in a seperate class and just remove the border on them.

I problem I saw when I went there is that with the current site, it expands to fill my widescreen monitor, where with the new site, it just stays in the middle of my screen in both front page and forums. Plus the front page seems to be way to long, have to scroll down a lot just to see a few front page stories.

Starfalcon wrote:I problem I saw when I went there is that with the current site, it expands to fill my widescreen monitor, where with the new site, it just stays in the middle of my screen in both front page and forums. Plus the front page seems to be way to long, have to scroll down a lot just to see a few front page stories.

Damage said they are pretty much set on having a fixed-width page, to cator to the masses, but that there will be some love later on for wider-than-1024 people, i.e. most of the people in this forum.

Bookmark that puppy, set your prefs to blue, and party like it's 1999!

Also, the blog paging issue should be resolved, and a number of other outstanding bugs are squashed. Some of the issues you guys have noted are related to the process we're using to import old content into the new tools. Those things should be sorted out during the conversion.

Thanks to those of you have been helping with testing. Much appreciated!